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Original Title:	Dept. of Speculation
ISBN:	0345806875 (ISBN13: 9780345806871)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (2015), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2016), Rathbones Folio Prize Nominee (2015)

Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill

Paperback | Pages: 180 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 34654 Users | 5111 Reviews

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Title	:	Dept. of Speculation
Author	:	Jenny Offill
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 180 pages
Published	:	October 7th 2014 by Vintage (first published January 28th 2014)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction

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Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all.

Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes - a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions - the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art.

With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.

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There are so many novels which are really memoirs but are given to us as novels because memoirs are like oh, what makes you think your life is so interesting I might want to read about it? and novels are yay! A new novel!I will bet one thousand of my British poundsthat Jenny Offill really did have a bug infestation in her apartment and really did have a daughter who broke both her wrists. (Novels I read recently which are really also memoirs are : A Question of Upbringing, The Wallcreeper, The

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The plot depiction is disjointed and resembles the ramblings of a bi-polar patient off his/her meds. Typically it sounds like the ramblings of a person in couples' therapy when only one partner shows up. I would like to talk about the redeeming graces of this novelette, but I could find none, It was like picking up someone's private daily journal -- and finding that it's really only meaningful to the person writing it. Unfortunately, this material just did not engage me. (The text that explains

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There are blowsy baroque behemoths that spill the entire contents of the fridge onto your reading table (and let you do the cooking, and the clearing up afterwards too sometimes), and then there are the delicate offerings, the distilled essence from the alembic, an extract that carries, within a tiny drop, sweetness, tartness, acidity, all at once. Potent. Searing. Jewel-like droplets that set the mouth ablaze and the mind reeling.This is sensational.Offill dispenses with all the conventional

My rating oscillates between 3 and 4 stars. Thin slices of married life as viewed through a microscope, agitated cells of a wife's emotional life swirling on the page. A mix of memories and inner thoughts, striking moments and philosophical quotes, the whole should have risen as a symphony yet it didn't quite do that in the end for me. The book felt a little bit rushed and disjointed and coming apart at the seams. Jenny Offill jumped ahead through the years a little abruptly at times and I often

If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.John Berryman once wrote let all flowers wither like a party. Nothing lasts, even the things we love most and nurture and care for must pass, but this is not cause for sadness but merely a reason to look into each moment and let ourselves feel the emotion coursing through them. Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill, writer of the marvelous childrens book (and staple of my daughters bedtime routine) Sparky!,